Word: delta
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Walter Fox Tree, a Native American who is an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, charged that the Graduate School of Education (GSE) Phi Delta Kappa chapter passed him over for the presidency in February because of his heritage...
According to Homans, Kang had been drinking at his MIT fraternity, Delta Upsilon in Boston, when he decided to cross the Harvard Bridge to get $10 from an automated teller machine on the Cambridge side of the Charles River to buy a pizza. He had gotten the money and was headed back to Boston when he encountered Foppiano head-on, Homans said. He said Kang was not intoxicated...
...founders, who severed East Pakistan's links with West Pakistan after a violent upheaval in 1971 and established it as a separate nation, Bangladesh will always be "Golden Bengal." In reality, however, the low-lying delta country, laced and often lashed by three great river systems, is still a "basket case," the cruel epithet thrust upon it at the time of its independence. A calamitous series of floods, cyclones and war-inflicted suffering have made it a focus of international concern from its inception...
...Delta accident stunned aviation experts because for the second time in three years a much admired airline and a state-of-the-art airport were involved. In 1985 a Delta L-1011 crashed on landing at Dallas-Fort Worth, killing 137 people. That mishap, however, occurred during a thunderstorm and was eventually attributed to the severe up- and downdrafts known as wind shear...
...that the left engine stalled out, though the plane should have been able to take off with its remaining two. Another is that spinning wheels and blades of one of the jet's turbines blew apart, sending shrapnel flying into a second engine and making takeoff impossible. The Delta jet was powered by three Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines; some models in the series were targeted by the Government for mandatory inspections and repairs in 1985, after failures were blamed for two major air crashes. Finding the precise cause could take months, but investigators will have an advantage because Flight...